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institution. But until many further reforms take place, both in society itself and in the details of our medical service, it is necessary that there should be not only this, but also many other centres in which experts in contraceptive measures are to be found by those who need their assistance, and who are not able to get adequate information in other ways. More especially for the really poor and very overburdened mother and the typical slum dweller who neither travels nor reads is the presence of a sympathetically staffed clinic, not too remote from her own dwelling, of great importance in guarding her own health and in the interests of the race. Unless experience in the clinic has brought first-hand knowledge of how some of the poorest women live it may not be realized how impossible it is for many a working mother to go any distance from home even for one day.

The patrons and staff of the Clinic have already been recorded (see Chapter XI, p. 324).

The simple equipment of this actual Birth Control Clinic^[1] (which has accomplished successfully a year and a half of work) may be described, as it may prove helpful to